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Learning to Make a Difference is all about empowering junior doctors to learn and develop skills in quality improvement and put these new skills into practice to make a real difference to their patient care. Find information and examples on how to get quality improvement projects started and keep going until the project is completed.

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The 2015 LTMD Showcase event will be held on the afternoon of Thursday 2 July at RCP

Online support sessions for trainees doing QI projects will run on the first working Monday of each month at 8pm. See the flyer at the bottom of the page for details of how to take part.

Use the resources, links and examples on this site to help get your project underway, then register your project on the LTMD database by emailing details of your name, project title, aim and hospital trust to LTMD@rcplondon.ac.uk.

Why a quality improvement project?

Quality improvement projects represent a realistic and dynamic process that enable trainees to bring about a visible change to their training environment. The methods and techniques learnt during the quality improvement project will help trainees to make change and enhance service quality throughout their careers.

The thoughts of Professors Jane Dacre and Bill Burr on the 2014 showcase event:

Next steps

We want more trainees to get involved in quality improvement projects over the next year. We want to provide the support for this through the resources available on this site and by developing support at local Trust level and central support from the college itself.

If you have any comments about the project or have difficulty finding any information, please contact LTMD@rcplondon.ac.uk.